APPLICATIONS GROWTH Class of 2012

Parents Forum
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<p>I see that Middlebury's numbers are now out (total=RD+ED):

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The Office of Admissions has received a record 7,680 applications for the Middlebury Class of 2012, a seven-percent jump in the number of applicants compared to last year. Admissions officials expect the pool to grow to roughly 7,800 as they continue to receive applications that were mailed before Jan. 1, the postmark deadline. </p>

<p>This year's larger applicant pool was partly anticipated because Harvard College and Princeton University dropped their early admission programs this past fall. Some candidates who would have applied early to either school are now part of the Middlebury application pool. According to Dean of Admissions Bob Clagett, this will make admissions decisions more difficult than before.

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Applications</a> reach record level - News</p>

<p>ANYONE SEEN REPORTS OF OTHER COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY NUMBERS YET?</p>

<p>IF SO, PLEASE POST.</p>

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The Class of 2011 was targeted to be 600 students, but 640 enrolled, not including February-admitted students. This growth was the result of a yield of around 46 percent, a two-percentage-point increase from the yield for the Class of 2010. The Class of 2012 is targeted to comprise 570 regular and 90 February students.

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<p>Nice to see Bob Clagett mentioning the February admitted and enrolled Middlebury conveniently never accounts for when reporting its true admission rates and exploiting the CDS weaknesses.</p>

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<p>Both Notre Dame and BC had an 11% increase in EA applications.</p>

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<p>Ugghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</p>

<p>I'm so glad I applied Early Action. This is INSANE.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt reported an increase of more than 40% in applications over the same period last year.</p>

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<p>It will be interesting to see if the yield rates change. With the common app so prevalent, I wonder if its just a similar number of students applying to more colleges.</p>

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<p>Brown applications are up around 7 percent.</p>

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<p>sly_vt....is that for total or just ED, and can you provide a source?</p>

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<p>I was intending this thread to discuss breaking news about all applications, not just ED or EA (info thats been out for a while), but I must have missed his one on EA...certainly heard about Stanford staying flat & others like Yale & MIT going up, but hadn't heard about the whopping 45% EA increase at Chicago: Odyssey</a>, Early Action get credit for increase in applications</p>

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More than 4,000 students applied to the University this fall—a 45 percent increase from last year and the greatest number of early-admission applications in College history. “The 45 percent increase was larger than we expected, though we did enter the season expecting an increase,” said Ted O’Neill, Dean of Admissions.

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<p>...this article on Chicago EA numbers was published today, 1/10/08.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt's increase of over 40% was for the ED I pool. On the VU web site, it is suggested that the large increase is due to the completion of the new freshman Commons residential complex.</p>

<p>I haven't seen anything about the ED II or RD application numbers.</p>

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<p>The strategy remains the same when applying to highly selective colleges with a scarcity of seats. Apply to as many schools that you can afford, reasonably meet your requirements, and within the capability of your essay writing ability and willingness of your references.</p>

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<p>they're duking it out in North Dakota (application increase data at the bottom of the quote)....</p>

<p>KFYR-TV</a> North Dakota's NBC News Leader</p>

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NDSU Surpasses UND Enrollment </p>

<p>1/10/2008 </p>

<p>For the first time ever, North Dakota State University is reporting a higher Spring enrollment than the University of North Dakota. </p>

<p>It<code>s not by much, but it</code>s big news among the rival schools. </p>

<p>NDSU is reporting a first-day spring enrollment of 11, 275 students, while UND is at 11,141.</p>

<p>That`s a one-percent increase for NDSU and a one-percent drop for UND.</p>

<p>A UND spokesperson says the school already has 11-percent more applications for next fall than last year.<br>

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<p>The Brown numbers come from an email sent today to alumni volunteers; it's probably the increase in total aps (ED plus regular), although it might be the increase in RD aps. I don't have the email in front of me.</p>

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<p>From the Northeastern University Dean of Admissions blog:</p>

<p>"We received close to 11,000 EA applications which is a 35% increase over last year."</p>

<p>Northeastern</a> Admissions</p>

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SAN DIEGO (Friday, Dec. 7, 2007) — San Diego State University received a record 61,492 undergraduate applications for fall 2008, the university announced today. Of those, 49,735 were first-time freshmen applications.

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The mind boggles.</p>

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<p>It will take a while longer before we see meaningful numbers for the Regular Decision applications. In the meantime, here are a few numbers:</p>

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App Volume  2011    2012    Change
Brown ED    2,316   2,461   6.26%
Chicago EA  3,041   4,349   43.01%
Columbia ED 2,429   2,582   6.30%
Cornell ED  3,015   3,110   3.15%
Dartmouth ED    1,285   1,429   11.21%
Duke ED .   1,187   1,247   5.05%
Georgetown EA   4,573   5,925   29.56%
J. Hopkins ED   997 1,055   5.82%
MIT EA ...  3,493   3,928   12.45%
Notre Dame  3,809   4,247   11.50%
Penn ED .   4,001   3,929   -1.80%
Stanford SCEA   4,636   4,551   -1.83%
Vanderbilt ED   803 1,133   41.10%
Yale SCEA   3,541   4,888   38.04%






Early Results   Admit   Applied Rate
Brown ED    555 2,461   22.55%
Chicago .............   4,349   0.00%
Columbia ED 597 2,582   23.12%
Cornell ED  1,139   3,110   36.62%
Dartmouth ED    400 1,429   27.99%
Duke ED .   472 1,247   37.85%
Georgetown      5,925   0.00%
JHU ....... 439 1,055   41.61%
MIT EA ...  522 3,928   13.29%
Notre Dame      4,247   0.00%
Penn ED .............   3,929   0.00%
Stanford SCEA   738 4,551   16.22%
Yale SCEA   885 4,888   18.11%

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<p>My Sweet-- good idea to check the blogs (the "master list here: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/423257-roundup-school-specific-undergraduate-admissions-blogs.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/423257-roundup-school-specific-undergraduate-admissions-blogs.html&lt;/a> )</p>

<p>....quick look only revealed news at UVa, still an incomplete count.</p>

<p>UVa-- still counting but looks like ~2-3% increase (by my calculation) even in the face of eliminating ED:

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we had 18,046 applications last year and 17,798 were completed applications (meaning students followed up with all the required documentation). At the moment, we have over 18,500 applications submitted (the number . It will take a few weeks to know how many become completed applications and then a few months for profile data to be compiled.

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<p>xiggi-- FYI...that article I posted above on Chicago EA, has some slightly different numbers than your table, not that the percentage is that much different.</p>

<p>also, I second your comment on Midd & exploiting CDS weakness....counting in the Febs, beside the CDS loophole allowing them to exclude Feb admissions rates, it appears to me that their actual enrollment is understated as well...using their factbook (<a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/A857ABC7-F7B8-4F95-91C3-8C9A89A009F3/0/admiss07.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/A857ABC7-F7B8-4F95-91C3-8C9A89A009F3/0/admiss07.pdf&lt;/a&gt;) I estimate their total enrollment is closer the Colgate at around 2700 to almost 2800, which is greater than reported in the CDS...this matters for a few metrics (e.g., student faculty ratio) that are used by US News. Of course there are some other CDS exclusions for study abroad students that are inconsistenmtly reported across schools that muddy this conclusion.....off the subject though of applications numbers.</p>

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<p>Ball State up 30%, credited to a new marketing campaign:
Applications</a> increase 30% - NEWS</p>

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<p>I'm puzzled why Yale and Stanford, both SCEA had such different applications results, with Yale shooting up and Stanford going down. Speculation, anyone?</p>